Resumen Pelicula Smoke

mo3. Smoke script

Smoke (1995)
by Paul Auster. Final script.
More info about this movie on IMDb.com
1. EXT: DAY. ELEVATED SUBWAY TRAIN

Against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, we see an elevated
subway train heading toward Brooklyn.

After a moment, we begin to hear voices. An animated discussion is
taking place inside the Brooklyn Cigar Company.

2. INT: DAY. THEBROOKLYN CIGAR CO.

The cigar shop from within. Displays of cigar boxes, a wall of
magazines, piles of newspapers. cigarettes, smoking paraphernalia. On
the walls, we see framed black-and-white photographs of people smoking
cigars: Groucho Marx, George Burns, Clint Eastwood, Edward G. Robinson,
Orson Welles, Charles Laughton, Frankenstein's monster, Leslie Caron,
Ernie Kovacs.

Words appear onthe screen: "SUMMER 1990."

AUGGIE WREN is behind the counter. Somewhere between forty and fifty
years old, AUGGIE is a scruffy presence: unkempt hair, a two-day
stubble of beard, dressed in blue jeans and a black T-shirt. We see an
intricate tattoo on one arm.

It is a slow hour. AUGGIE is flipping through a photography magazine.

Near the counter are the three OTB MEN. These are localcharacters who
like to hang out in the store, shooting the breeze with AUGGIE. One is
black (TOMMY) and the other two are white (JERRY and DENNIS). DENNIS
wears a T-shirt with the following words printed across the front: "If
life is a dream, what happens when I wake up?"

TOMMY
I'll tell you why they're not going anywhere.

JERRY
Yeah? And why is that?

TOMMY
Management.Those guys are walking around with
their heads up their asses.

DENNIS
They made some great deals. Tommy. Hernandez.
Carter. Without those two, there never woulda
been no World Series.

TOMMY
That was four years ago. I'm talking about now.
(Growing more intense)
Look who they got rid of. Mitchell. Backman.
McDowell. Dykstra. Aguillera. Mookie. Mookie
Wilson, for Chrissakes.(Shakes his head)

JERRY
(Sarcastically)
And Nolan Ryan. Don't forget him.

DENNIS
(Chiming in)
Yeah. And Amos Otis.

TOMMY
(Shrugs)
Okay, joke about it. I don't give a shit.

JERRY
Jesus, Tommy, it ain't science, you know. You
got your good trades and your bad trades.
That's how it works.

TOMMY
They didn't have to do a thing, that's all I'msaying. The team was good, the best fucking
team in baseball. But then they had to screw it
up.
(Pause)
They traded their birthright for a mess of
porridge.
(Shakes his head)
A mess of porridge.

The bells on the door jangle as someone enters. It is AUGGIE'S protégé,
JIMMY ROSE, a mentally retarded man in his late twenties. He has been
sweeping the sidewalk outside the store andholds a broom in his right
hand.

AUGGIE
How'd you do out there, Jimmy?

JIMMY
Good, Auggie. Real good.
(Proudly thrusts out broom)
All finished.

AUGGIE
(Philosophically)
It'll never be finished.

JIMMY
(Confused)
Huh?

AUGGIE
That's how it is with sidewalks. People come,
people go, and they all drop shit on the
ground. As soon as you clean up one spotand
move on to the next, the first spot is dirty
again.

JIMMY
(Trying to digest AUGGIE'S comment)
I just do what you tell me, Auggie. You tell me
to sweep, so I sweep.

The bells on the door jangle again, and a customer enters the store: a
middle-class man in his early thirties. He walks to the counter as
JERRY teases JIMMY. In the background, we see him talking to AUGGIE.AUGGIE pulls some cigar boxes out of the display case and puts them on
the counter for the YOUNG MAN to inspect. In the foreground we see:

JERRY
(Interrupting. Playfully)
Hey, Jimmy. You got the time?

JIMMY
(Turning to the SECOND OTB MAN)
Huh?

JERRY
You still have that watch Auggie gave you?

JIMMY
(Holds up left wrist showing
cheap digital watch. Smiles)...